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Demand and Supply Planning
Market-leading, all-in-one solution to control supply chain risks, capture missed opportunities and improve production responsiveness and efficiency.
- Demand and Supply Planning
Match the market with machine-speed decisioning
Insight infused planning allows you to meet demand, minimize excess inventory and maximize inventory turnover while cognitively adapting to changing market conditions.
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Achieve consistency and resiliency, empower agility and adaptability with Blue Yonder Demand and Supply Planning
Enhanced forecast accuracy with advanced AI and ML
With demand planning, businesses can achieve a 12% improvement in forecast accuracy. By integrating patented algorithms and advanced ML models, this solution ensures that demand forecasting is not only highly accurate, but also reliable. The AI-driven feature accelerates decision-making and optimizes forecast.
Increased efficiency, productivity and cost savings
Demand planning leads to a 75% improvement in planner efficiency and a 50% reduction in costs and expenses. This is achieved through the automation of routine tasks and the real-time simulation of demand drivers, which empower planners to respond swiftly and strategically. Additionally, the solution offers significant savings of up to 30% such as through a one-time inventory reduction.
Collaborative and unified planning and strategic decision-making
Enable real-time, collaborative consensus planning and communication across the business by integrating inputs from sales, marketing, and operations into a unified, flexible process. This multidimensional analysis improves visibility and enables faster, more informed decision-making, leading to a 2% increase in revenue and a 1.5% rise in gross margin.
Elevate your supply chain strategy from planning to manufacturing
Stage the right inventory at the right time so you can minimize stockouts and get a higher return on invested capital. By leveraging advanced ML, Blue Yonder’s inventory optimization capabilities strategically groups customers based on updated data, allowing you to tailor operations to specific needs. Ensuring efficient inventory allocation and enhanced service levels, balancing cost and value seamlessly.
Reduce excess inventory and obsolescence costs through network resilience
Inventory optimization eliminates excess inventory and reduces obsolescence costs while maintaining high customer service levels. By leveraging advanced ML cognitive microservices, Blue Yonder’s solution takes a strategic approach to ensure efficient use of resources and minimizes waste, leading to significant cost savings.
Enhance flexibility and decision-making for higher profitability
Proactively adapt to markets to ensure robust supply while reducing escalations and cost to maximize delivery performance. Blue Yonder leverages advanced micro-segmentation and cross-industry adaptability to improve decision-making and inventory management accuracy, ensuring a flexible and responsive supply chain strategy.
Fulfill your potential with Blue Yonder
Demand planner
Gain accurate forecasts to ensure the right products are available at the right time, minimizing stockouts and overstock situations.
Increased profitability
Achieve higher availability and lower costs through micro-segmented demand and AI powered forecasting.
Optimized inventory and minimized waste
Align inventory deployment to market to reduce overstocking and stockouts and reduce the waste in your supply chain.
Increased revenue
Top line growth through a more accurate view of the market and higher customer satisfaction.
Achieve higher availability and lower costs through micro-segmented demand and AI powered forecasting.
Optimized inventory and minimized waste
Align inventory deployment to market to reduce overstocking and stockouts and reduce the waste in your supply chain.
Increased revenue
Top line growth through a more accurate view of the market and higher customer satisfaction.
Success stories in Demand and Supply Planning
Learn how Micron tackled extreme cyclical demand volatility, long lead times, materials shortages and multinational operations, and was able to balance inventory levels, customer service and costs with Blue Yonder.
Lenovo operates 30 manufacturing facilities, serves customers in 180 markets, and makes an astounding three devices every second. Not only is Lenovo’s product line broad and complex, but its production model is equally complex, based on both build-to-plan and configure-to-order. Jack Fiedler, VP of Digital Transformation for the Global Supply Chain at Lenovo, discusses how Blue Yonder solutions help ensure the right products are in the right place, leading to faster turns, higher service levels and reduced costs.
As Western Digital’s business grew, they needed to migrate from homegrown, spreadsheet-based planning tools to robust, scalable solutions that would support their expanding original equipment manufacturer (OEM) channels and retail presence. Western Digital sought an integrated advanced planning solution that would help them maintain profitable growth and maximize margins while continuing to meet customer demand and increase customer satisfaction. They chose Blue Yonder’s Planning solution to transform their planning processes.
One of the largest leisure retailers in Australia, Super Retail Group was ready to invest in the supply chain and inventory management improvements it needed to meets its evolving needs. Learn how Blue Yonder helped this growing company improve forecast accuracy, increase process efficiency and more through a rapid – and effective – cloud services implementation that took only 10 months.
Adored by brands, recognized by analysts
Blue Yonder Named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Supply Chain Planning Solutions
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